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Presto Recordings of the Year, Pärt (composer)
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It's clear within minutes of this recording that Vox Clamantis are a leading interpreter of Pärt's music. They breathe it; they live it...Their tuning is so locked in that it produces an overtone-like... —
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BBC Music Magazine, November 2025, Choral Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2025
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The Times, Best Classical Albums of 2025
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Even by their standards, the choir are on blindingly good form in Schnittke’s monumental Choir Concerto. —
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2021
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Diapason d’Or, October 2021, Nouveauté
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2021
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Choral
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Grammy Awards, 64th Awards (2022), Nominee - Best Choral Performance
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Diapason d’Or de l’Année, 2021, Musique chorale
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2022, Shortlisted - Choral
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The NFM Wrocław Philharmonic, led by Tōnu Kaljuste, propel [the First Symphony] onward, drawing a shape from the swirling sonic mass…The Fourth (2008) owes as much to silence as it does to sound... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2018
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Winner - Contemporary Music
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Alfred Schnittke & Arvo Pärt: Choral Works
RecommendedRaul Mikson (tenor), Maria Melaha (soprano), Karolina Kriis (soprano), Marianne Pärna (alto), Ave Hännikäinen (alto), Toomas Tohert (tenor), Kaia Urb (soprano)
Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, Kaspars Putniņš
The performance by the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir under Kaspars Putiniņš is really impressive with a particularly rich and sonorous bass sound that is absolutely tailor- made for this... —
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2018, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2018, Winner - Choral
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2018
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It’s the breadth – not just of repertoire but of sound, technique and approach – that makes it so arrestingly excellent… The musicianship here is dazzling, and nowhere more so than in Britten’s... —
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2020, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2020
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Arvo Pärt: Credo
RecommendedKalle Randalu, Estonian Festival Orchestra, The Estonian National Male Choir, Ellerhein Girls' Choir, Ellerhein Alumni Choir, Paavo Järvi
All get fine performances from Järvi and his orchestra, including the most familiar, the grieving Cantus in memoriam Benjamin Britten and radiant Fratres. Here is the essence of Pärt, simple,... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2025
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Stripping down the number of voices in Pärt has palpable benefits...Not that there's any sense of power missing: in the tutti of the Magnificat, the crescendos are ringing, and again one notes... —
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2015, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2015
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This is inspiring, immaculate music-making of the highest order – nothing less than you would expect from an ensembkle that can be counted among Britain’s great cultural treasures. —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2025
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Coming soon. Arvo Pärt: Credo
RecommendedEstonian Festival Orchestra, The Estonian National Male Choir, Ellerhein Girls' Choir, Ellerhein Alumni Choir, Kalle Randalu, Paavo Järvi
All get fine performances from Järvi and his orchestra, including the most familiar, the grieving Cantus in memoriam Benjamin Britten and radiant Fratres. Here is the essence of Pärt, simple,... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2025
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Special offer. The Deer’s Cry: The Sixteen sing Pärt, Byrd & Tallis
RecommendedThe Sixteen, Harry Christophers
[The Deer's Cry] is a deceptively easy-looking piece on the page, but keeping its halting, minimalist ground-rhythm pulsing meaningfully, and building the slow-burn crescendo over several minutes... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2016
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